The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1887-07-15

John Wanamaker was fifty years old on
Monday.
Twenty-Five deaths from yellow fever
have been reported at Key West
Henry Wattcrson thinks that Cleveland
will be renominated for the Presidency.
Miss Annie Slater died in church at
Pottsvllle last sunday morning from a
stroke of apoplexy.
Rhode Moe, an auctioneer, was killed on
Saturday, July O. in franklin township
Bradford county, by DIR. Randolph Lyons
who afterwards shot himself Both were
about 63 years old. On Thursday, July
7th, Mrs. Lyons committed suicide by talk
ing strychnine.
The Broad street station at Philadelphia,
is a hotel as well as a railroad depot, and
the employees can find everything they
want in the building About 200 trains
leave the station daily, and IL is estimated
that %, 900 passengers take the cars there
every day. The station is too small for the
business of the road, and it is SAID that 1t
will soon be enlarged.
The memory of the Garfield family Is re-
called by the statement that Mollie Gar
field the Presidents daughter, is to be
married tn J. Stanley Brown in September.
Mr.. Brown is best remembered as Mr..
Garflelds private secretary, and as the
man who rendered such tender but efficient
service when the victim of Guiteau's bullet
lay stretched upon his death-bed. Al
though many years the young lady's senior,
he is credited with having been gallant
wcoer, and the affection between the two
is said to be the most tender. 1t had its
birth, indeed, in those sorry times at Wash
ington and Elberon. Whether or not the
wedding will be public has not yet been
decided, but the privacy in which the fam
mony.
The proprietors of all the leading hotels
of Huntingdon have decided to close their
houses against all transient and regular
boarders, to take effect on the 10th, be-
cause their applications for license were
refused last week
The regular boarders at all the hotels,
who have been notified to leave at once,
are greatly distressed by reason of their iu-
ability to find suitable lodging places else-
where. Many of them are being taken
care of by personal friends. The landlords
justify their action by declaring that with
out license they cannot afford to keep
their houses open. 1t is feared that the
srcr"as of the proposed celebration of the
"'lAiy's centennial anniversary, to be held
I in September, will be seriously intcrfered
with in consequence of the hotels being
closed TO the public.
Oscar S. Harvey of Wikesbarre, Treas
ury Chief of Division at Washington, Is
under arrest for forgery and other fraudu
| lent practices. 1t seems that while he wa:
acting as chief of the horse claims division
| he discovered about twenty old cases, II
which all the necessary papers had beer
perfected but which had never been fin
| ally considered, because Of the press o
other business, and also because no one
seemed to be particularly interested i;
them. Mr.. Harvey took charge of then
himself, and under the assumed name o
"W. W. Wynn, attorney" addressed sever
al letters TO the Third Auditor, urging thei
immediate consideration. Harvey then sc
cured their allowance by the accounting
officers by means of the counterfeit stamp
and forged signatures which had been ST
successfully employed by him in othe
| cases.
These claims amounted to S2,55O, an,
checks for that amount were sent to tn
mythical Mr.. Wynn, and in that way cam
into the hands of Mr.. Harvey, who had n
difficulty whatever in securing their pay
ment at the Citizens National Bank Q
Washington. He forged tha necessary il
dorsements to the checks and then adde
his own name. This new discovery swell
the total amount fraudulently secured b.
Harvey to $11 700.